My name is Matt Gifford,
I am 16 years old and a Sophomore in high school. I have taken all the
Reiki classes and am certified in all of the levels including Reiki III.
In December a friend of mine was in an automobile accident. He was in
a car with two other teenagers, and the driver had just recently gotten
his license. The three boys were returning from the school Christmas dance.
They were not speeding, or drinking, or driving recklessly, and they were
all wearing their seat belts, but the driver of the car mis-negotiated
a curve and the car ran off the road. The car then hit a plank fence on
the side of the road. One of the planks came through the passenger side
of the window and hit my friend in the forehead.

They took my friend
to the hospital and found that his brain was hemorrhaging and he was in
a coma. I heard about the accident the Monday after it happened, and it
hit me really hard. I am not really good friends with him but I have talked
to him several times and he seemed like a high-spirited type of person
and he makes everyone happy that is around him. The doctors said that
it would be a miracle if he came out of the coma, and if he did, he would
have permanent brain damage.

That night I went
home and was really depressed. My mother asked me what was wrong and I
told her about the accident. She suggested that we go into our Reiki room,
and send Reiki to my friend, but I was too depressed to even think about
it. Later that night my mother told me that we could go back to the Reiki
room and all I had to do was think about the way he was when he was well,
so I did. She sent him the Reiki and she asked me to think of what he
was like before the accident. Then she asked me to think of him being
like he was before the accident, one month from now. I did this and my
mother sent him the Reiki.

The next day I went
to school and my principal announced over the intercom and told us that
the night before, (the same night we did the Reiki), my friend had come
out of the coma and was sitting up and talking to the doctors and his
parents. This news made me very happy. After about a month of him being
in the hospital, he finally came back to school, just as I had imagined
him in the Reiki treatment, and he only suffered a slight short-term memory
loss.

I think this is a
very good example of the kind of miracles that Reiki can help come true.

Reiki With Prayer
and Visualization

by Laura
Ellen Gifford

I would like to offer
an additional perspective on the story my son, Matthew, shared in his
article above.

When Matthew came
home from school the day he heard of the accident, he was deeply depressed.
This was of great concern to me because he is always happy, and depression
is just not a state of being I have ever been able to associate with him.
When he told me what had happened to his friend, my immediate reaction
was "let's go into the Reiki room, and send him healing energy." Well
Matthew was so depressed that he declined the suggestion three times throughout
the evening.

Finally I decided
as a mother, and in the best interest of my son's emotional state, we
had to do something.

So I suggested that
we go in the Reiki room, and since he didn't feel balanced enough to send
Reiki himself, Matthew would help me connect to his friend, and I would
send Reiki.

We didn't use the
normal distant healing techniques, our approach was a little different.
We sat side by side on the futon, I was guided to place my left hand on
the back of Matthew's heart chakra, and my right hand in the air in front
of me in a sending position. The entire process was guided as follows;
We invoked all the Reiki symbols, Matthew was asked to visualize his friend
as he was last time they spoke. His friend was laughing and telling jokes.
He was then asked to see his friend back in school, and the time was one
month in the future. In this future projection, Matthew was asked to see
his friend laughing and whole and healthy again.

When Matthew had
this image in his mind, a very loving and powerful prayer began to flow
through me, requesting that the lessons from this accident be fully learned,
and that Divine Will be the present and guiding force in the outcome,
and that the perfect healing take place with Divine Love and Wisdom.

The power of the
prayer that was channeled amazed us both, the vibration of the guide working
with us was that of a very intense and focused energy.

When Matthew came
home the next day and announced the news about his friend's amazing recovery,
I reminded him that we were only two of many people praying for his friend
(this was the teacher in me trying to make sure all egos remained detached
from the healing that had taken place). However, the fact that our visualization
included a one month time frame to complete healing, and the young man
was back in school nearly one month to the day from our Reiki session,
is certainly a point to ponder.